If all they need is $1 million to study how something goes "viral", they could probably get that much funding from Twitter, or Facebook, or Google, or any of the major ad-supported companies. Those companies probably have better data to analyze, too.

No, that's not a man-in-the-middle detector. It's a MITM attacker for test purposes.

Does it have a man-in-the-middle detector? Those are rare, but useful.

(Correction: uninstall Xorg and the GUI)

At least they acknowlege the concept of "blocker bugs". Those doesn't seem to bother Ubuntu. See "Bug #1274672: Fresh install of 12.04.3 fails to upgrade to 14.04" You can't upgrade Ubuntu because of a packaging problem related to Xorg. Ubuntu developers tried to deny the problem, which has a few thousand hits on Google. Finally somebody installed the old version in an empty virtual machine and demonstrated that, even after a completely clean install, the upgrade wouldn't work.

(There's a workaround. Completely install Xorg and the GUI, and, from the command line, do the upgrade. Then re-install the GUI. Really. Wonder why Linux can't make it on the desktop? It's stuff like this.)

The employers having problems are the ones who want just-in-time employees with just the skill set they need right now. Then they want to dump them when the project is over. Of course they can't get what they want.

Then there's the "full stack DevOps" concept, or one person doing everything, on-call 24/7.

Most of them. Windows 7 is no longer offered for retail sale, but big companies with bulk deals can get a downgrade option.

Little squares. That's the future of computing.

Well, yes. Why should Google give you free bulker hosting?

It's not "WW II", technology, it's late 1950s LORAN-C technology. LORAN-A was WWII. It's good to have this as a backup. Many aircraft still have LORAN-C receivers. It's good enough to find an airport.

all it requires is that users sign in

Or, all your base is belong to us.

It's not clear if this will work post-Jobs. Jobs was able to get people to wear dweebish white wires hanging out of their ears. Tim Cook can't do the Reality Distortion Field thing.

Hulu recently pulled an interesting stunt. The've been running WGN's "Manhattan" series, about the original A-bomb program. Anyone could watch it free, with ads, after a few days.

Then, for the final episode, they forced people to register with Hulu or sign in with Facebook to see the episode. Their message says "This video is intended for mature audiences. Use your Facebook or free Hulu account to continue." I checked with WGN. Hulu is lying; the last episode is not for "mature audiences". WGN says they'll try to get Hulu to fix it, but it's been over a week and it hasn't been fixed.

Hulu is learning from the cable companies how to put their boot on the user's face.

The pill transmits to a wrist sensor. Of course, that will transmit to an Android phone, which will upload the data to Google's servers. You'll need a Google account, of course. All that data will be available to you (and, of course, Google's "affiliates") via a newly reactivated Google Health.

That was done in the 1950s and 1960s. I give you the Youth Fitness Song, sent to every school in America in 1960.